Is it real? Or is it just window dressing to make companies look good, that they adhere to some standard, that a third party has verified?
Beacon Community Services has their logo on their front page, so I thought I’d give it a click, to see what it is about. Mainly because I find the standard of care provided by Beacon Community Service to be SUB STANDARD.
In searching the associated website, I find some interesting things, such as no easy means of the public to actually participate. IF it is there, not easy to find, but perhaps after some digging I can find something.
Lots of info on how to get accredited, and naturally a list of nice sounding goals too, but are they practical? Do they simply require a fee to join, sign up and declare they meet those criteria, then get to use the seal?
In going through the site, it is apparent to me, that this is just a scam. Maybe in other branches it has some validity, but frankly it doesn’t provide the consumer, the end user, with any information. It is like saying NEW & IMPROVED on a bottle of laundry detergent.
ACCREDITATION CANADA may have standards, that it says its clients adhere to, but there is no way to verify what those standards are, unless you want to pay them some money, or how they actually insure that their clients meet those standards, and maintain them.
In other words, it is simply a way for bogus operations, to pass themselves off as being up to snuff, as both VIHA & BEACON are listed as clients. AND from reading the site, to me, all that means is they paid some cash to get some standards, say they complied with it, and got a nice shiny little image to display on their sites, along with a certificate for the brick and mortar locations.